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Dick Durbin: I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily…

On the recordJune 29, 2016
I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 68, nays 30, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 116 Leg.] YEAS--68 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Burr Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Coats Cochran Collins Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo Donnelly Durbin Enzi Feinstein Fischer Flake Franken Gardner Gillibrand Graham Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johnson Kaine King Kirk Klobuchar Lankford Leahy McCain McCaskill McConnell Mikulski Murphy Nelson Paul Peters Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Schatz Schumer Sessions Shaheen Stabenow Sullivan Thune Toomey Udall Vitter Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--30 Baldwin Booker Boozman Boxer Brown Cantwell Capito Cotton Cruz Daines Ernst Grassley Heller Lee Markey Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murray Perdue Portman Sanders Sasse Scott Shelby Tester Tillis Warren Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Manchin Warner The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Jun 29, 2016

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